Guild Wars 2

Looking into buying some exotic gear for my thief. Wanted to get the thoughts from other players on what the best set to buy was. Looking at Aidan’s set right now. Any thoughts?

I’m liking the 42k karma gear you get outside of Arah, great rune set up and pretty durable.

Thanks. Ill have to look into that.

Any other thoughts?

I’m gonna give the cliché answer: it really depends on your build…
Ask a leatherworker what different stat combinations are craftable, and if there’s nothing for you there, try karma vendors. Or the other way around :p

I’m more looking at does a power/precision/cond damage build make sense for a thief? I’m looking for a DPS character but thinking gear with those 3 stats might lack survivability

jstarnes.2716:

I’m more looking at does a power/precision/cond damage build make sense for a thief? I’m looking for a DPS character but thinking gear with those 3 stats might lack survivability

That’d be the rampager set if it’s crafted, but I believe some dungeon sets also have that stat matchup.

It’s currently what I use, due to the nature of our ranged weapons requiring some condition damage to be effective and IMO, thieves can’t take a hit even if they’re fully stacked with toughness and vitality.

Thieves rely on mobility, a little bit more dodging than other classes (with acrobatics), and blindness to survive.

Unfortunately blindness is terrible against champions.

Another setup a lot of thieves use that is also a glass cannon set is berserkers. Highest crit damage, however you won’t benefit from the bleeds and poison on shortbow, venoms, or pistols.

The stat mix I’m actually shooting for at the moment is rampager’s armor and coral jewelry, with a berserker’s sword and pistol as 1 set and rampagers shortbow (or dual rampager pistols) as off set, divinity runes (more crit damage and such), and here’s the thing where it gets a little weird… replacing the exquisite coral gems in my jewelry with exquisite beryl gems.

The result is a mix that gives me yes, 30% less crit damage than full berserker’s but 33% more damage from conditions, a little bit more crit chance (about 57-60% crit chance), and +1000 health over full berserker’s.

Something I’m going to try anyway.

I use full berserker’s every item and i do just fine, using sword/pistol i can kill any mob in 2 pistol whips, usually 10k a piece.
at around 15k life
with 90% crit dmg (w/o food)
and 50% crit

What is the name of your set?

Search for “Berserker” on guildhead or on the TP and you’ll find the items he’s refering to. Berserker items have precision/power/crit damage.
Here are Berserker weapons:
http://www.guildhead.com/items/catg/19/rarity/exotic/name/berserker/reqlevel/80-80

Dunno how you have 15k health in full berserker’s and ruby equipment. It’d be more like 13k.